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1 | package Import::Into; |
2 | |
3 | use strict; |
4 | use warnings FATAL => 'all'; |
5 | |
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6 | our $VERSION = '1.000002'; # 1.0.2 |
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7 | |
8 | my %importers; |
9 | |
10 | sub import::into { |
11 | my ($class, $target, @args) = @_; |
12 | $class->${\( |
13 | $importers{$target} ||= eval qq{ |
14 | package $target; |
15 | sub { shift->import(\@_) }; |
16 | } or die "Couldn't build importer for $target: $@" |
17 | )}(@args); |
18 | } |
19 | |
20 | 1; |
21 | |
22 | =head1 NAME |
23 | |
24 | Import::Into - import packages into other packages |
25 | |
26 | =head1 SYNOPSIS |
27 | |
28 | package My::MultiExporter; |
29 | |
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30 | use Import::Into; |
31 | |
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32 | use Thing1 (); |
33 | use Thing2 (); |
34 | |
35 | sub import { |
36 | my $target = caller; |
37 | Thing1->import::into($target); |
38 | Thing2->import::into($target, qw(import arguments)); |
39 | } |
40 | |
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41 | Note: you don't need to do anything more clever than this provided you |
42 | document that people wanting to re-export your module should also be using |
43 | L<Import::Into>. In fact, for a single module you can simply do: |
44 | |
45 | sub import { |
46 | ... |
47 | Thing1->import::into(scalar caller); |
48 | } |
49 | |
50 | Notably, this works: |
51 | |
52 | use base qw(Exporter); |
53 | |
54 | sub import { |
55 | shift->export_to_level(1); |
56 | Thing1->import::into(scalar caller); |
57 | } |
58 | |
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59 | =head1 DESCRIPTION |
60 | |
61 | Writing exporters is a pain. Some use L<Exporter>, some use L<Sub::Exporter>, |
62 | some use L<Moose::Exporter>, some use L<Exporter::Declare> ... and some things |
63 | are pragmas. |
64 | |
65 | If you want to re-export other things, you have to know which is which. |
66 | L<Exporter> subclasses provide export_to_level, but if they overrode their |
67 | import method all bets are off. L<Sub::Exporter> provides an into parameter |
68 | but figuring out something used it isn't trivial. Pragmas need to have |
69 | their C<import> method called directly since they affect the current unit of |
70 | compilation. |
71 | |
72 | It's ... annoying. |
73 | |
74 | However, there is an approach that actually works for all of these types. |
75 | |
76 | eval "package $target; use $thing;" |
77 | |
78 | will work for anything checking caller, which is everything except pragmas. |
79 | But it doesn't work for pragmas - pragmas need: |
80 | |
81 | $thing->import; |
82 | |
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83 | because they're designed to affect the code currently being compiled - so |
84 | within an eval, that's the scope of the eval itself, not the module that |
85 | just C<use>d you - so |
86 | |
87 | sub import { |
88 | eval "use strict;" |
89 | } |
90 | |
91 | doesn't do what you wanted, but |
92 | |
93 | sub import { |
94 | strict->import; |
95 | } |
96 | |
97 | will apply L<strict> to the calling file correctly. |
98 | |
99 | Of course, now you have two new problems - first, that you still need to |
100 | know if something's a pragma, and second that you can't use either of |
101 | these approaches alone on something like L<Moose> or L<Moo> that's both |
102 | an exporter and a pragma. |
103 | |
104 | So, the complete solution is: |
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105 | |
106 | my $sub = eval "package $target; sub { shift->import(\@_) }"; |
107 | $sub->($thing, @import_args); |
108 | |
109 | which means that import is called from the right place for pragmas to take |
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110 | effect, and from the right package for caller checking to work - and so |
111 | behaves correctly for all types of exporter, for pragmas, and for hybrids. |
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112 | |
113 | Remembering all this, however, is excessively irritating. So I wrote a module |
114 | so I didn't have to anymore. Loading L<Import::Into> will create a method |
115 | C<import::into> which you can call on a package to import it into another |
116 | package. So now you can simply write: |
117 | |
118 | use Import::Into; |
119 | |
120 | $thing->import::into($target, @import_args); |
121 | |
122 | Just make sure you already loaded C<$thing> - if you're receiving this from |
123 | a parameter, I recommend using L<Module::Runtime>: |
124 | |
125 | use Import::Into; |
126 | use Module::Runtime qw(use_module); |
127 | |
128 | use_module($thing)->import::into($target, @import_args); |
129 | |
130 | And that's it. |
131 | |
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132 | =head1 AUTHOR |
133 | |
134 | mst - Matt S. Trout (cpan:MSTROUT) <mst@shadowcat.co.uk> |
135 | |
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136 | =head1 CONTRIBUTORS |
137 | |
138 | None yet - maybe this software is perfect! (ahahahahahahahahaha) |
139 | |
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140 | =head1 COPYRIGHT |
141 | |
142 | Copyright (c) 2010-2011 the Import::Into L</AUTHOR> and L</CONTRIBUTORS> |
143 | as listed above. |
144 | |
145 | =head1 LICENSE |
146 | |
147 | This library is free software and may be distributed under the same terms |
148 | as perl itself. |